On February 10, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) approved, through Directoral Resolution No. 032-2021-MINEM/DGAAH, the “Remediation Plan for Impacted Site S0115,” as it meets the technical and legal requirements stipulated by environmental regulations. Impacted Site S0115 is located within the territory of the Nueva Jerusalén Native Community – Corrientes River basin – in the district of Trompeteros, province and department of Loreto.
With this approval, the engineering project will be prepared, which, once it has the approval of MINEM, will be able to begin the execution of the rehabilitation of this area impacted by hydrocarbon activities.
In 2015, the Peruvian government approved the creation of the Environmental Remediation Contingency Fund to allocate resources for studies and the rehabilitation of areas impacted by hydrocarbons in the Marañón, Corrientes, Tigre, and Pastaza river basins. Since then, the Fund has accumulated over 300 million soles and, through its Board of Directors, has submitted 30 Rehabilitation Plans to the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) for evaluation, of which S0115 is the first to be approved.
Regarding the Contingency Fund for Environmental Remediation
Law No. 30321 created the Environmental Remediation Contingency Fund, whose geographic scope encompasses the Pastaza, Tigre, Corrientes, and Marañón river basins in the Loreto Department. It also established the Board of Directors, the body responsible for monitoring, reporting, and periodically disseminating the results of the implemented environmental remediation measures. The Board of Directors is composed of representatives from the Corrientes, Tigre, Pastaza, and Marañón river basins—the Quechua Indigenous Federation of the Pastaza (FEDIQUEP), the Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes River (FECONACOR), the Federation of Native Communities of the Upper Tigre (FECONAT), and the Cocama Association for Development and Conservation of San Pablo de Tipishca (ACODECOSPAT)—as well as representatives from the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM); the Ministry of the Environment; the Ministry of Housing, Construction, and Sanitation; the Ministry of Health; and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.
Profonanpe has held the role of Technical, Administrative and Financial Secretariat of the Contingency Fund since January 2020.
